Re: Owen Pallett Heartland

[Myke Atkinson <mykeatkinson@gmail.com>]

Cadence Weapon w/ Final Fantasy (live looping):
http://www.upperclass.to/audio/cw-ff-sharks.mp3

The original of this song is so killer.

-Myke

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Jean-Paul De Roover
<j.de.roover@gmail.com> wrote:
> He used to be called "Final Fantasy", and if you can find it there's a
> podcast from CBC where he and Cadence Weapon (Canadian 8bit hip hop
> artist) collaborate on each other's songs for an hour.  Pretty neat
> stuff.  I haven't seen him live yet, but I do live in a more remote
> part of Canada, which is often overlooked when artists are suddenly
> launched into indie-stardom.  Proud Canadian though!
>
> On 3/4/10, Myke Atkinson <mykeatkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> To be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of his music until I saw him live (not
>> that I didn't like it - it was just kind of in the take it or leave it
>> pile). Last year he played in Calgary as part of the Sled Island 
>festival at
>> this gorgeous church downtown and I was blown away by his live 
>performance.
>> Besides being devilishly charismatic, the mini-orchestra of sounds he
>> creates with his live looping setup is incredible. Truly an amazing
>> performer.
>>
>> Your post made me look up some videos of him, and this one, while pretty
>> horrible audio quality, showcases some of the ingenious and extremely
>> musical ways he uses his looping setup live:
>> http://vimeo.com/7509410
>>
>> -Myke
>>
>>
>> On 2010-03-04, at 12:03 AM, Michael Peters wrote:
>>
>>> a friend gave me the "Heartland" CD of Owen Pallett. Incredible music,
>>> very
>>> idiosyncratic and hard to categorize, but melodic and very enjoyable. I
>>> hear
>>> that he does livelooping - has anyone seen him live?
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>
>>
>
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